Yeah, for some people the goals are different, I can easily imagine using Duolingo every day just to keep a habit going. It is good as a mental exercise if you aren't doing enough of that. My brain is too hyperactive though, so I think the less work it has the better hahaha

As for drumming, I haven't used drum sticks before, but on djembe my friend taught me a cool trick that made drums make sense to me. He told me to just keep a very steady simple beat and then choose some beats to skip and experiment with which beats I skip and the tempo. It doesn't help with specific beats but it gave me a muuuuuuch better sense of rhythm and groove and I feel like I could probably figure out drums way quicker now. Living with a sound engineer who could play everything kinda changed my life! I should tell him